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Patented Apr. 4, |899.

No. 622,57l.

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PATEN MAX WALD, OF 'NEW' YORK, N. Y.

WAHSTBAND FOR TROUSERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,571, dated April 4, 1899. Application led April 25, 1898. Serial No. 678,745. (No specimens.)

To cir/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX WALD, of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Vaistband for Trousers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to waistbands for use on boys knee-pants for supporting the same from the waist; and the object of the invention is to provide a new and improved waistband which is simple and durable in construction, arranged for convenient attachment to a garment, and capable of stretching at or near the back where the strain is the greatest. I

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claim.

` Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure lis a face view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional perspective View of the improvement in a partly-stretched position, the section being taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 isa transverse section of the improvement on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a face view of part of the blank for forming the waistband.

The improved waistband is made from a single blank A of a suitable fabric material cut to the desired length and width, the blank being folded to form a lining B, adapted to be secured at its upper edge to a garment in the usual manner. The lower end of the lining B continues into an upwardly-extending `folded member C, terminating in a downwardly-extending member O', both members C and C forming a fold for connecting the lower edge of the liningB with the lower edge of the button-Hap D, extending in front of the lining B, as is plainly shown in Fig. l.

The upper end of the button-flap D is doubled up, as at D', and the doubled-up portion is folded over at the top edge at D2 and the four thicknesses are sewed together bya row of stitches D3, which greatly reinforces and strengtliens the upper edge of the buttoniiap. Buttonholes E are formed in the doubled-up part of the button-nap D D and are spaced a suitable distance apart, a row of stitches F being arranged in a zigzag line from the bottom ends of the buttonholes along and through both the lining and the buttonflap D D', as is plainly indicated in the drawings. The row of stitches F also pass through the upper ends of elastic pieces G, arranged in alinement with some of the buttonholes E at or near the middle portion of the waistband, as plainly indicated in Fig. 2, each elastic piece extending across a longitudinal slit l3, formed in the middle portion of the lining B, as is plainly indicated in Figs.2, 3, and 4. The lower end of each elastic piece G is secured by a row of stitches H between the lower part of the lining B and the member C of the fold, which member is thus also secured to the lower part of the lining for a distance approximately somewhat greater than the length of the slit B'. (See Fig. 2. v

Now it is evident that by having the row of stitches F in the manner described convenient access is had to each buttonhole E between. the lining and the flap D to fasten the waistband to the buttons on the waist and at the same time an elastic connection is made at some of the buttonholes between the flap D and the lining by the elastic pieces G. When a strain is exerted on the button-flap D, at or near the middle thereof, then the elastic pieces G will take up such strain by stretching, as the members O O of the fold intermediate said button-flap and lining readily Open, as plainly indicated in Fig. 3, thus preventing the band from tearing.

It is evident that by making the waistband from a single blank of a fabric material to form both the lining and the button-nap the l IOO longitudinal edges of the strip, and said outer layer havinga longitudinal slit for a portion of its length, the material being bent upward from the lower edge of the outer layer, forming a second layer extending on the inner face of the outer layer, the material further having a downward fold extending from the upper end of said second layer, an innerlayer extending from the bottom of said fold to the upper edge of the band and provided with buttonl1oles,a downward fold extending from the upper end of the inner layer on the outer face thereof, the lower edge of said fold being formed by the other longitudinal edge of the strip, and pieces of elastic material secured at the slitted portion of the outer layer between said outer layer, the fold extending downward from the upper end of the inner layer, and the layer extending upward from the bottom of the outer layer.

MAX WALD. Vtnesses:

THEO. G. IfIosTER, EVERARD BOLTON MARSHALL. 

